This week’s Dance First Insight is from Dr. Jamie Marich & Dancing Mindfulness!
Dancing Mindfulness: 10th Anniversary Reflections
Jamie Marich, Ph.D., LPCC-S, REAT, RYT-500
Dancing Mindfulness is a practice over which I never felt comfortable
claiming ownership. Dance and mindfulness are two of the oldest healing
practices that are inherent to the first peoples of our planet and to
cultures on every continent. As I share in the 2015 book
Dancing Mindfulness: A Creative Path to Healing and Transformation, I am
literally alive because of the folk dancing traditions of my Croatian
ancestors. My parents were both folk dancers and musicians practicing in
their respective cities and they met one year at a national festival. I
was fortunate to be schooled in the same traditions as a young child,
and to organically stumble
upon free-form organic styles of movement in my basement as a young child learning to cope with emotions.
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